Tbers,

My apologies for missing the last meeting.  I thought many of you  
would find the MIT OpenCourseWare project interesting.  Here is a  
ditty from The Chronicle's web site recently forwarded to me.  The  
OpenCourseWare project basically made the content of ALL of MIT's  
courses available on the web for free.

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> March 12, 2007MIT's OpenCourseWare Project Nears Completion
> When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the  
> formation of its OpenCourseWare project (The Chronicle, April 20,  
> 2001), the plan struck some observers as far-fetched: Putting  
> online the instructional material for nearly 2,000 college courses  
> isn’t exactly a simple task.
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> Nearly six years later, though, MIT has lived up to its lofty  
> aspirations. Campus officials have told the Associated Press that  
> the university will have digitized and posted material for all of  
> its courses by the end of the year. (Currently, the institution has  
> posted resources from more than 1,400 classes.) When they started  
> the project, MIT administrators predicted that they would need  
> about 10 years to complete it, so this could be the rare  
> institutional endeavor that meets its goal well ahead of schedule.
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> Of course, the OpenCourseWare program may never really be finished  
> in the traditional sense: New courses will pop up, syllabi will  
> change, and new distribution methods will render others obsolete.  
> But the announcement still marks a milestone, especially for other  
> institutions — including the University of Notre Dame, the  
> University of California at Irvine, and Utah State University —  
> that have followed MIT’s lead and started making their own course  
> material available free online. —Brock Read
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Jim Greenberg